By William Cross,Jean-Benoit Pilet

utilising a special info set that incorporates greater than one thousand management elections from over a hundred events in 14 nations over a virtually 50 12 months interval, this quantity presents the 1st complete, comparative exam of the way events decide on their leaders and the effect of the various judgements they make during this regard. one of the matters tested are how leaders are selected, the criteria that bring about events altering their choice ideas, how the foundations have an effect on the
competitiveness of management elections, the kinds of leaders selected, the influence of management transition on electoral results, the criteria affecting the size of management tenures, and the way management tenures come to an end.

This quantity is positioned within the literature on intra-party selection making and occasion organizational reform and makes specified and demanding contributions to our figuring out of those components. The research comprises events in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

Comparative Politics is a sequence for college kids, lecturers, and researchers of political technological know-how that offers with modern govt and politics. international in scope, books within the sequence are characterized through a tension on comparative research and robust methodological rigour. The sequence is released in organization with the eu Consortium for Political learn. for additional info stopover at: www.ecprnet.eu.

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